Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 9826, William Emerson, N.H.

SERVICE
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M.H.
Emerson, William
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CONTENTS
Papers found in claim of Daniel Smith, R. 9826

Machiasport Me      3 Paid Nov 25
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Thomas Lumpkin Esq Washington D.C.

Minutes of Daniel Smith's Service & N.H. Record
The name of Daniel Smith is borne upon a Roll of Col Baldwin's Regt. Sept 1776 for N.H. with an allowance for advance wages & bounty of £6 - Travel £ 2-1-8c Capt Philip Root name.
The name of Daniel Smith is borne upon a Pay Roll of Capt. Nathan Baldwin's Co. Col. Nichols Regt. March from Amherst & Wilton for Re-enforcement on the alarm June 29 th 1777 Engaged - June 29 Discharged July 12 1777
The name of Daniel Smith is borne upon a pay Roll of Capt. Root's Humbell's Co. in Col. Sturtevant's Regt. March from N.H. joined the northern Cont. Army at Saratoga Sept 1777 Enrolled Sept 9 Discharged Dec 15 - Time in service 8 mth 7 days
The name of Daniel Smith is borne upon a pay Roll of a Co. of N.H. Forces Commanded by Capt. Joseph Parsons in Col. David Gilman's Regt. Commencing Dec 5 - 1776 extending March 11 1777 both of said days included Time in Service 3 months 11 days

The name of Daniel Smith is borne upon the Return of Capt. Nath. Hobbs Co. at Paris Island Nov 5 - 1775 - as first Lieut terms of service not named
Sir
As to this last thing of service the Old Man said, that he was there three months - and Comd very near starving to death used to tell about it quite of ten - As is stated I think in the affidavit of John Rumbly a Copy of which you have the this John Rumbly was a soldier in last war 1812 I send these minutes of service as you may want them for reference This service is proved by his own declarations in the Affidavits of Stephen Sprague - one of the crew of the Essex in last war - and a Dartmouth Prisoner - and these things always used to be talked over by these soldiers and John Rumbly. I should of stated that there was a man that died here by the name of Emerson that served in the N. H. Militia in Revolutionary

was who used to say that this Daniel D. Severy in the N.H. Milton and ought to be pensioned. John Emerson the name is born upon the Rolls in N.H. he died in 1848 and never applied for Pension - one of his sons is now living here is a Baptist Minister if any thing can be made out of this. Pleasing from me
Yours
Isaac T. Cole
Chas Lumpkin Washington

I Charles Emerson of Machiasport County of Washington State of Maine, aged fifty nine years having been duly sworn according to law doth depose and say, That I was born in Machiasport, that I resided in said Town until AD 1828, when I was absent from said Town about nine years, when I returned to Machiasport where I have since resided for the most of the time That I am the son of William Emerson who was a private in the Revolutionary war, that he served in the New Hampshire Militia, that he moved from said State of New Hampshire about sixty three years ago, to Machiasport where he died at the age of eighty five in 1848, and that he never was Pensioned, that I was informed on my return back to Machiasport that he applied to J. A. Lowell to get a record of his service to enable him to get his pension, and that he never obtained any information about it and that I did not know when to apply to get a record of his service until about one year ago I was informed that if I should apply to the Secretary of State of New Hampshire I should find a record and I did so apply and have received a copy of the record of his service

from the Secretary of State of New Hampshire and that my father died without being Pensioned - and that he did not know how to obtain the necessary information.
Charles Emerson
State of Maine Washington } ss County }
On this second day of January AD 1854 personally appeared Charles Emerson and sworn to the truth of the above affidavit by him signed before me who certify that I am well acquainted with the deponent and that he is believed to be of the age above stated and that he is a Clergyman in regular standing, and a witness who is entitled to full credit and being
Samuel Small
} Justice of the Peace

State of Maine.
Washington County ss. — I Albert G. Lane Clerk of the Judicial Court in & for the County aforesaid, hereby certify that Samuel Small is & was at the time of administering the foregoing oath, a Justice of the Peace, in & for said County duly commissioned & qualified, & that his signature above written is genuine.
In testimony whereof I hereto set my hand & the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court of said County this third day of January A. D. 1854. Albert G. Lane Clerk.